ANTIQUE PERENNIALS growers of garden collectables
Rare, Unusual and Hard to Find Perennials, Grasses, Alpines and Prairie Plants
The Collector's Garden Conference
23rd September 2023
From the wild to cultivation: how to grow and display plant gems from forests, meadows, steppes, coastal cliffs and high rocky places in your garden.
A morning of lectures and panel discussions.
An afternoon of practical workshops and garden visits.
Speakers and Workshop Presenters include:
- John Mitchell, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
- Craig Wilson, Gentiana Nursery
- Matt Reed, Antique Perennials
- Jane Tonkin, Tonkin's Bulbs
- Alan Ayton, Alpine Garden Society Victorian Group
- Russell Larke, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Cranbourne
- Aaron Condon, Head Gardener at Coombe, Artist and Crevice Garden Designer
- Viv Condon, Alpine Garden Society Victorian Group
Program at a Glance
Morning Session:
SkyHigh Function Room, Mt Dandenong
Lectures and Panel Discussions
Plant Sales
Morning Tea and Lunch Provided
Afternoon Session:
Various locations at Olinda, Sherbrooke and Mt Dandenong
Choose two of five workshops:
* Garden Visit to a Collector's Garden
* Behind the Scenes Tour at Tonkins Bulbs
* Creating a woodland
* Building a Crevice Garden
* Planting up a Crevice Trough
The Collector's Garden Conference
Our Nursery
Antique Perennials is a wholesale and retail nursery. We sell wholesale to plant retailers, landscapers and professional gardeners with an ABN. Please note we are not a mail order nursery. Owners Matt Reed and Michael Morant have a combined 50 years experience in growing plants for Australian gardens. We specialize in rare and unusual perennials, including shade loving woodlanders, bulbs, prairie plants and other hardy perennials. We have spent years collecting and importing plants from many locations throughout the world. Many of our plants are recent introductions and are only available from Antique Perennials.
Our plants are available year round from some of the best retail nurseries in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Southern Queensland and Tasmania
Retail Nursery and Display Garden
Our retail nursery and display garden are open Sundays to Thursdays with lots of hard to find perennials, bulbs, grasses and alpines to tempt the keen gardener. Located in beautiful Kinglake where you can also visit Kinglake National Park, visit other gardens and nurseries, great coffee and food and only 20 minutes from the Yarra Valley wineries and restaurants.
Retail email - retailantiqueperennials@gmail.com
A Day Trip To Kinglake
Kinglake offers many attractions for the day tripper. A visit to our Retail Nursery and Display Garden can be followed by a coffee and great lunch at Songbird Cafe and Larder , A whisky tasting at KInglake Distillery , a drink in the beer garden at Kinglake Pub , a visit to Fern Acres Nursery and a wander through KInglake National Park .
Gift Vouchers are available for our Retail Nursery In Kinglake
You can call or email us for Gift Vouchers below
Design Service
Ralph Bristow
We highly recommend Ralph for Design and Installation utilizing Antique Perennials plants. We have worked closely with Ralph for many years. Approaching every design as if it were a blank canvas, Ralph’s Garden designs are dynamic in nature and intuitively conceived to be celebrated, relevant, practical, revealing, delightful and above all enjoyable year-round.
The inspiration behind all of his garden designs is the natural world and the raw, diverse beauty found within it. His extensive knowledge of plants – in addition to resilient design skills – aid in ensuring the unique vision of every client becomes a reality whether the site is a courtyard or a large rural garden.
The gardens themselves are integrated seamlessly into the landscape. Ralph uses the landscape, together with practical integrations and lifestyle to enhance and complement all his projects. The land is used to the advantage of the garden, and wherever possible, capitalizing on natural resources, seasons, and local conditions. He works extensively with creative combinations, striking a balance between perennials, natives, shrubs, grasses, trees, and hardscape elements.
Within each of Ralph’s inspiring gardens exists a complex layering of plants, an inciteful sensitivity to the surrounds both natural and manufactured all while designed to reveal itself at differing times, ensuring a garden that celebrates every season.
Ralph is available for consultations, landscape and garden design covering South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales.
Website ralphbristowgardendesign.com.au/ Email ralphbristow7@bigpond.com
